Monday, January 18, 2016

Does the Organized Sexual Murderer Better Delay and Avoid Detection?

According to the
organized-disorganized model, organized sexual murderers adopt specific
behaviors during the commission of their crimes that contribute to avoiding
police detection.

The current study examines the effect of sexual murderers'
organized behaviors on their ability to both delay and/or avoid police
detection. Using a combination of negative binomial and logistic regression
analyses on a sample of 350 sexual murder cases, findings showed that although
both measures of delaying and avoiding detection are positively correlated,
different behavioral patterns were observed.

For instance, offenders who moved
the victim's body were more likely to avoid detection but the victim's body was
likely to be recovered faster. Moreover, victim characteristics have an impact
on both measures; however, this effect disappears for the measure of delaying
detection once the organized behaviors are introduced. Implications of the
findings are discussed.